X500RelativeDistinguishedName.GetSingleElementValue Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates

Assembly:

System.Security.Cryptography.dll

Source:

X500RelativeDistinguishedName.cs

Gets the textual representation of the value for the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN), when the RDN only contains one attribute.

public:
 System::String ^ GetSingleElementValue();

public string? GetSingleElementValue ();

member this.GetSingleElementValue : unit -> string

Public Function GetSingleElementValue () As String

Returns

String

The decoded text representing the attribute value. If the attribute value is an OCTET STRING, or other non-text data type, this method returns null.

Exceptions

CryptographicException

The attribute is identified as a textual value, but the value did not successfully decode.

InvalidOperationException

The Relative Distinguished Name has multiple attributes (HasMultipleElements is true).